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It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than...
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years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … association is stronger in places with greater incomes, higher quality of school, and larger investments in public health. Women …
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effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …
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. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school …
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of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …
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This paper estimates the effects of educational attainment and school quality on crime among American women. Using …, and teacher salaries) on incarceration and arrests. Finally, we show that the effects of education on crime for women are …
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impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being …
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the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … proportion of ever married women with eight years of schooling lowered number of pregnancies per woman by 0.13 and number of … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …
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The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women … of the model can account for a large fraction of the decline relative to trend in married women's participation in 1995 …
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impact on employment was larger for women, minorities, the less educated, and the young, even after accounting for the … industries and occupations they worked in. By November 2020, however, the differential impact between men and women, and between …
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